Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Not everybody agrees

Some Democrats and some Republicans think the cuts to NIH are misguided;

some are proud that NIH funding has substantially increased;

could have "catastrophic results" for patients and researchers;

one of the big issues is "indirect costs" in grants (which has been true for decades).

Quote:

"Arthur Bienenstock, an emeritus professor at Stanford and an expert on science policy, said the proposal made him worry about the future of research.

“The net impact would be a significant decline in biomedical research, and its
centralization in a small number of universities,” he said. “Research would
shift away from public universities and less well-endowed private universities,
toward well-endowed private universities like Harvard and Stanford.”